[…]o Ross in the August and somebody rang me up or sent me a letter and said ‘There's a job as a secretary to The Establishment Assistant in Television, Sydney W. Budd’.Mm.‘And we wonder if you'd be interested, you’ll have to come up to London for the interview’, and I'd only gone home for, you know, a[…]
[…]wn to New Guinea across to Melbourne Melbourne and to a place called Palmerston Laws? in New Zealand Palmerston North up Auckland Or Auckland back to Sydney Sydney to Perth. Perth to the Cocos Islands. Lovely little place to stay. We just refuel there. Cocos Islands to Singapore Singapore to Aden do[…]
[…] of the Collection Mike has been researching an interview with Syd Wilson, an incredibly significant figure in the de velo pment […]
[…] right, gone on to become extremely talented directors and producers. Syd Lotterby, who in latter years has taken on that […]
[…] to apply for this job, and so I didn't apply. And I'd been told that I ought to apply for it by the assistant head of outside broadcast at the time, Syd Wilkinson. He said, You should apply for this. And when I didn't apply, he called me to his office and he says, you obviously have no future in ou[…]
[…] that. And Jack Train was one of the radio celebrities and I’ve still got that set today – not the same card but I have the set of radio celebrities. Syd Walker; Stanley Holloway. And seeing that, it never occurred to me I’d be anybody who’d be a household name. Why should I? And then I went to see […]
[…], not a very nice experience. I don't think I've put the hex on anybody so far. But I wouldn't say that the director was one of my favourite players, Sydney fury. And yet he had his good points, but that sort of roll off that ship. Now we come to much more recent things, I think, yes. We went some, […]
[…]orge Pearson, whose daughter I think was Winifred Pearson, who became the secretary to George Elvin of the AC t as it was there in the association of Sydney technicians. And she was the continuity girl on this film. I thought this is absolutely marvellous. I mean, I'm on a film for the first time I […]
